Workshop your prose where you already write it.

Select an excerpt.

Point Prose Minion at a passage in any Markdown manuscript — a paragraph, a scene, up to 2,000 words.

Attach a context brief.

Built automatically from your story bible — character sheets, voice guides, prior chapters — so the analysis knows your world.

Run a craft tool.

Dialogue, gesture, cliché, continuity — seventeen focused passes return plain, copyable notes in monospace.

The writing room.

Your excerpt, an optional context brief, and a wall of craft tools. Pick an analysis and it runs on the passage with your story bible attached — then hands back notes you can act on.

• Three primary tools up front — Dialogue & Beats, Prose, Gestures — plus More Tools for every other pass.
• A live word count and source path keep the excerpt grounded in the real file.
• Results keep their monospace + emoji character — copy or save any pass to your workspace.

A second reader who already knows your characters.

Find your tics across the whole book.

Word and category search scoped to a file, a folder of chapters, or your entire manuscript set. See every occurrence, the gaps between them, and where a word clusters too tightly.

• Scope it to active file, manuscripts, chapters, or a path pattern.
• Tune context words, cluster window, and minimum cluster to catch repetition that matters.
• Results come back as a per-file table with hit counts and average gaps.

The numbers behind the prose.

Prose statistics, style flags, and word-frequency — measured against a publishing standard and trim size you choose. Vocabulary diversity, lexical density, readability, word-length distribution.

• Pick a publishing standard (YA, adult) and trim size; metrics calibrate to it.
• Style flags surface weak verbs, adverbs, filler, and passive voice.
• Visual distributions — word length, frequency — render right in the panel.

Definitions with a sense of the scene.

AI lookups that read your context — definition, IPA pronunciation, and a sense explorer with synonyms tuned to how the word sits in your sentence. Run a full lookup or a fast one, and leave Topic & Related Lexicon on to end each entry with related topics, vocabulary, and books to read next.

A guide, not a dropdown.

The tools picker opens as a guide — bigger cards that say what each pass does, grouped Primary, Dialogue, Craft & Voice, and Technical. Continuity even checks your excerpt against prior chapters.

Always know what a pass costs.

Your live OpenRouter balance sits in the header, with the last request's cost right beneath it — so a single lookup's spend is never a surprise. You pay OpenRouter directly; the extension is free.

Context briefs from your story bible

Character sheets, voice guides, and prior chapters assembled into the prompt automatically.

Seventeen craft tools

Dialogue, gesture, cliché, continuity, craft steering — primary, craft, and technical passes.

Monospace results, kept

Every pass returns plain, copyable notes — save any of them straight to your workspace.

Manuscript-wide scope

Run search and metrics over one file, a chapter folder, or every manuscript at once.

Publishing standards

Calibrate metrics to a YA or adult standard and a real trim size before you measure.

A model per job

Assign a heavyweight to analysis, something fast to dictionary lookups — your call, per task.

Keys stay local

Stored in VS Code SecretStorage — never in settings, never on a server.

Theme-native UI

Follows your VS Code theme by default — or flip one switch for Warm Dark.

Your draft stays yours

Analyses, rewrites, and Workshop replies are suggestions. Prose Minion never edits your manuscript.

Your key never leaves your machine.

The OpenRouter key lives in VS Code's encrypted SecretStorage — not in settings, not on a server.

No backend, no middleman.

Calls go straight from your editor to OpenRouter. Your manuscript and prompts are yours alone.

Clean architecture.

Layered, typed, tested — built to last. Forked from the pixel-minion framework.

One key, then you're editing.

Prose Minion works on Markdown manuscripts in your workspace. Results save right back to a folder you control.